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Coca-Cola apologises after customer finds 'YOU RETARD' printed inside bottle cap
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| Helen Collis
Posted on 09/20/2013 5:47:10 AM PDT by Morgana
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posted on
09/20/2013 5:47:10 AM PDT
by
Morgana
To: Morgana
Does anyone not remember when the word “retard” meant “to slow?”
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posted on
09/20/2013 5:48:20 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: rarestia
Does anyone not remember when the word retard meant to slow? Yes, and it still does.
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posted on
09/20/2013 5:49:19 AM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished.)
To: Morgana
I think you have to be retarded to drink soda.
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posted on
09/20/2013 5:49:43 AM PDT
by
ObamaMustGo2012
(Obama Must Go In 2012)
To: Morgana
Please...the word means someone is slow....Doing away with words and we will not be able to interpret our history.
To: Morgana
“insulting profanity”
Really?
To: rarestia
you mean like.....”retard the growth of mold”?
To: Morgana
I’m skeptical. It makes no sense to purposely put that on what would have to be thousands of bottles. What would make sense is a defective print job that has partial sentence or a random generator sequence for a code.
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posted on
09/20/2013 5:55:56 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: rarestia
Does anyone not remember when the word retard meant to slow?Do musical transcriptions or sheet music still use the word 'ritard'? Or has PC crept all the way through every facet of modern society?
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posted on
09/20/2013 5:56:20 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
To: Sacajaweau
More like “Retard the government spending”
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posted on
09/20/2013 5:56:35 AM PDT
by
Morgana
(Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: Raycpa
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posted on
09/20/2013 5:57:09 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: ObamaMustGo2012
But it was a low calorie fruit drink!
This will teach them. Next time the employee should write "You Idiot!".
No. Wait, that could be problematic too. I can see it now...
'... the "I" word is considered a swear word in our family. We don't use it. We don't tolerate others using it around us. We ARE over-sensitive but you would be too if you had liberals in your family!'
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posted on
09/20/2013 5:57:45 AM PDT
by
70times7
(Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
To: Morgana
What a bunch of wimps people of become. PC correct BS.
To: Morgana
I think you pretty much have to be retarded to drink soda.
To: Morgana
insulting profanity "Retard" is NOT profanity. And from the family's response, not inaccurate either.
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posted on
09/20/2013 5:58:24 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: ObamaMustGo2012
Oops. Sorry for the double post. Computer problems at work.
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
09/20/2013 6:00:37 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: Morgana
You would thing that the result of a dual language promotion in a dual language country would not result in such a retarded reaction.
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posted on
09/20/2013 6:02:14 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: rarestia
Does anyone not remember when the word retard meant to slow?
Yes, it does mean that. Here's the problem. Mentally handicapped children were put in retarded classes, etc., and at some point the word became an epithet: "You retard!" Or, "That's retarded!" Once the word was used that way, and retarded children (adj. + noun) simply became "retards", yes it became offensive. The reason it happened with retard and not idioy probably has to do with the fact that the term idiot is rarely used to describe people who are literally idiots.
So, new words get adopted. "Slow" doesn't work, who remembers the "Slow Children at Play" signs? Euphemisms get invented ("Rides the short bus.") The word "special" or "differently abled" just invites ridicule and caricature pronunciation. Any new word (I always thought "handicap" was a better word for this class of things) is likely to over time undergo the same treatment as retard did.
But yes, "You retard" on a bottle cap is a cruel insult. The word "a**hole" still has a normal meaning, and all of us have one, but to be called that is stil insulting.
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posted on
09/20/2013 6:03:50 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: Morgana
There is money to be made in outrage.
Get angry, get paid!
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